GeForce RTX 5050 likely to get a minor VRAM upgrade

With the RTX 50 Super lineup effectively pushed back to 2026, Nvidia has to find new, creative ways to keep Blackwell alive in the gaming segment. The RTX 5070 laptop variant might get a VRAM upgrade, and if a new leak from known leaker @Zed__Wang is accurate, so might the RTX 5050 desktop. Apparently, the entry-level GPU will be remade with 3 GB GDDR7 modules.

Hence, the RTX 5050 9 GB will come with 9 GB of VRAM on a 96-bit bus. On paper, that is an upgrade from 8 GB of GDDR6 video memory, but it is on a 128-bit bus. Overall memory bandwidth should stay roughly the same, and depending on the type of GDDR7 modules used (28 Gbps/32 Gbps), we might even see a tiny increase (from 320 GB/s with GDDR6 to 388 GB/s with fast GDDR7 modules).

Other RTX 5050 9 GB specs, such as its GPU, TGP and base/boost clocks, are unknown at this point. They will likely remain nearly identical or the same as the RTX 5050 8 GB. Overall, it looks like Nvidia wants to put its 3 GB GDDR7 modules to work somewhere, although one can’t imagine why they got wasted on an RTX 5050 when the RTX 5060 lineup could have benefited far more from a VRAM increase.